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Yelp.com at Center of Extortion Controversy |
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Today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yelp.com, the social media site that lets "reap people" leave "real reviews" of businesses and restaurants has been targeted in a lawsuit that alleges that Yelp.com employees have engaged in extortion. The suit alleges that if a negative review of a restaurant is posted Yelp workers will call the restaurant and offer an advertising package that will remove the negative review for a price around $300.
The case is pending in a Los Angeles federal court.
This case raises some very serious questions for Yelp.com users as well as brand owners.
- Is it ethical for review sites to allow businesses to "buy off" negative reviews?
- Are sites like Yelp.com important to your brand?
- Does this lawsuit give you second thoughts about buying advertising from Yelp.com?
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Facebook Punishes User for Actions of Application Publisher |
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Written by Mike Seidle
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Friday, 26 February 2010 15:08 |
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 It appears that Facebook is reading private messages - and banning people if they don't like the content. While the terms and conditions may basically allow Facebook to do this, the question is, should Facebook be reading your private messages and looking at your private photos?
Earlier this week, James Amato, a friend of mine, discovered his Facebook account had been disabled. At first, I thought that it was no big deal, but the more I think about it, the more concerned I have become that Facebook may have their employees reviewing private conversations and content -- and then using that to disable accounts. While that may be inside the bounds of Facebook's terms of use, it may be out of bounds of their user's expectations, just like last year's Beacon Debacle.
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Linking Indiana has been around for about 1.5 years. In that time, we've grown a lot, but givent that I don't have a ton of time, this site has been limited by the platform it runs on. Linking Indiana runs on Joomla 1.5, which is a great content management system, but just isn't a strong enough in the social and conetnt sharing department. Add to that the fact that it takes Joomla plus about 18 plug-ins to provide this level of functionality, I've decided the time has come to move on from Joomla.
So, sometime in February, this site will relaunch. When it does, it will be based on WordPressMU + BuddyPress. This will give Linking Indiana a little better feature set, especially for our Opinion Leaders and Guest bloggers. When we re-launch, I'm hoping that people wanting to reach Hoosiers with high quality content, useful events and great ideas find Linking Indiana to be an effective platform for doing so.
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Group Focus: Indiana IT Pros |
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 Linking Indiana is more than just this website and our newsletter. We also have created several professional groups on LinkedIn to help local professionals find one another. In the past few weeks, one of our groups, Indiana IT Pros has taken off with a surge in new members, increased participation in group discussions and job postings.
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If you have not noticed, we've been offline for a few days. I'll confess: I did not spill beer on the server, but we did have a little database issue. Unfortunately, I did not have time until last evening to fix it -- Mike
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